How Many of you love the Polish Language?

It's not just Polish I know but it's the emphasis on the second syllable that gives it a distinctive rhythm. I like to hear Polish.

...that make excellent tongue twisters ;P

You mean the penultimate, of course.

The level of stress is quite good in Polish. It's not as up and down as in English, or too typewritery like Spanish.

Yeh - but since I can only cope with three syllable words I'm usuually right

LOL

(Rofl)

I love Polish, and I love studying Polish in the same vein as I loved studying physics. It is so complicated grammatically, and can be so frustrating to pronounce, yet(especially compared to English), it is so predictable. The language actually follows its rules. I sometimes wonder how anyone could grow up thinking in Polish and not naturally be inclined to be a scientist.

I enjoy studying the language. It somehow is at the top of my love of different languages. However, one thing that I can't yet quite master in pronouncing is when c turns into ci and I have to stop and think about how I'm going to pronounce it. Especially when it's in the same word.

I liked all languages I ever learnt, although I got bored or annoyed with some after a while, but for me foreign languages are rather maths, not physics (maybe because I loved maths, and I wasn't crazy about physics). They follow some kind of their internal logic, and discovering it is a fascinating process.

learning a a language is like maths for me.
so many rules to remember, so many exceptions...but they all claim to be utterly logical...
so i must be VERY illogical to not understand both :( :(

How many people love the polish language. well i do I am not even polsih and I am learning it I think it is the most beautiful languiage int he world and i hoipe to master it so hwo do you feel about your language? beautiful language

ok thanks for your opinion the cz an chs and cyz some words are hard I hear russian slavi language is good but I happen to like Polish. as to the question why i wish i was polish well thats hard to explain bcause there is alot to why i wish I was polish.

As I am nosey, can you give a few examples?

Check out the poetry of Iwaszkiewicz or Julian Tuwim. Hearing it read aloud by the likes of a Hanna Stankówna or an Andrzej £apicki, great 50's acting star of Wajda film fame, is truly an experience!

But how?

I like the polish sounds coming out of polish girls lips.

That's what i think too ;P
We could also add ć, ś, ź, ż, and the "si", "zi", and "ci" sounds ^^


I wouldn't compare Polish to German cause it's quite different. But i do like German and "every" other Germanic languages. I really like English, Scandi languages are really nice too, even if Icelandic may sound weird... But i've never really heard someone speaking it, just seen texts ;)


Not really... i mean about French. I'm not a big fan of the Italian language, as i'm not a big fan of Spanish language, all these "o", "a", "i", etc. ^^ Even if Spanish was my 2nd language at school...so boring.

The French language is different, it's the most "Germanic" of the Latin languages. You won't find so many words ending in "o", "a" and "i" ;)

Osiol,

Go to your local library or order cassettes and digitally remastered CDs of these actors/actresses reading the works of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Julian Tuwim etc.

They're not that hard to find!

I love the Polish language.
It is not as harsh as German, but it is not as soft as French.
It is not as guttural as German, but it has the nasal vowels like French.

just like perfect lover;)

Polish language is ok.After a bit practising you can understand too much when others speak, but speaking is so difficult...Too many sz cz rz , i can't say them naprawde...and the other that i can't learn is that you are changing the ending..But generaly speaking Polish are ok, and not so difficult to learn...

You sure ? I'm French, so i know the French language, and i think that Polish is even softer with all its sz, rz, cz sounds... ;)

Unless you're referring to Hollywood-German, German as a language isn't harsh at all! You have but to hear German poetry read by a great German actor, like Will Quadflieg reading Goethe etc. in order to experience the transluscent beauty of the German language.

Yes Marek,everybody know how romantic german language sounds.

Nice to know that people from other countries learn, or even love polish language :) Keep up your learning!

Kamil,

Jeszcze język polski NIE zginąl!

German does sound harsh to me and the few german people I have met were quite hard and cold in manner - even their biscuits were hard - I nearly broke my teeth on them. It's a shame that they come over that way because may be they are ok really. I don't know.

But I love the Polish language. It's strong yet sensitive and sexy. I like it when my Polish boyfriend talks to me in his language. I am really trying too hard to learn it though and get frustrated with myself for not getting it quicker but it is quite difficult.

Germans, moreso than the Austrians or even the German Swiss, often require a super long 'thawing out' period! I too found their aloofness rather offputting at first. To be sure, I associated Germany as a country populated by blond, blue-eyed, methodical, rather plodding giants, square jawed and implaccable.

Quite recently in fact, I could have sworn I was seeing a group of Northern German tourists at the museum......when it turned out to be Poles!!! -:) LOL

One can never be too careful, I guess.

Okgirl66!

I don't know where exactly in Germany you were, but I pity you your lamentable experiences with the German language. While I grew up here in the States, having lived for a time in Germany, I had the advantage of being raised almost bilingual, I therefore may hear the language differently from someone who was exposed to it for the first time as an adult.

While I also appreciate your comments regarding German, I do respectfully disagree!
As regards Polish, yer "a-preachin' to the choir" on this end. Have long since been a "convert" to the Polish language and find its poetry as captivating as German, but for slightly different reasons!

I was in Berlin. Wouldn't want to go there again. If you grew up with German being spoken to you then you are probably imune to it's harsh sounds. Being introduced to both Polish and German at a later age gives me more ability to judge between the sounds. So I respectfully disagree with you. I don't like the German language but I love Polish.

I think it depends on who it is that's speaking it, I've found some people it sounds quite nice and some where it sounds really horrible. I think it's funny to try and say some words as some words I get a buzzing in my ear like I'm doing the noise of a bee. Bit offputting if I'm trying to say a polish sentence lol

I know what you mean. Some sounds are quite nazal and I've noticed I have to have a different mouth shape for some sounds. The hardest thing for me is that the word endings keep changing......

I have always been amazed at the ability of the human brain of a child to easily learn and adapt to whatever language is present.

My nephew and his Japanese wife and daughter visited from Tokyo recently and their little girl spoke Japanese to mom and English to dad. When I visited some friends who had been in Rome for about 6 months, their 6 year son just rattled away in Italian with the apartment complexes door keeper with perfect ease.

Why as adults do we lose that ability? Is it a fear of sounding stupid?